SPD Ptl. Luke Bethell was on patrol when he saw a silver SUV pick someone up on Wood Street then pass him traveling north. He noticed that the driver was not wearing a seat belt, and he turned around and initiated a traffic stop. A black male jumped out of the passenger side of the vehicle and fled. The officer approached the white female driver and asked who the passenger was and “she claimed she didn’t know.” A second passenger in the vehicle, at first, said he did not know the passenger who fled, but later said it was his cousin. The officer tried to speak with the driver again, but “she then began to scream and yell (and) swing her arms about in the car” and would not provide any information. The woman was placed under arrest for obstruction of governmental operations. The second passenger then got out of the vehicle “screaming and cussing on his phone.” After several attempts to calm the male passenger, he was placed under arrest for disorderly conduct.

500 block of S. Rose

SPD Ptl. Kyle Stokes took a report from a woman who someone broke into her home. She said when she arrived her from work she put her key in the door and the door pushed open. She noticed the cushions on the couch were flipped upside down and a television was missing. The report states that the a door on the west side of the home appeared to have been pried open. The SPD Criminial Investigation Division was notified.

Aug. 9

1800 block of S. Leslie

SPD Ptl. Luke Bethell was took a report from a man who said someone had kicked in his front door and burglarized his home. According to the report, “the front door of the home was busted open and the entire home had been gone through.” The man said there were two 50-inch flat screen televisions, an XBox 360 and assorted games missing. The man said he had an idea of who had broken into the home but refused to tell police because he said “they were homeboys.” Later, the officer was dispatched to a local convenience store to meet the man who showed the officer security cameras that showed someone trying to sell the stolen items.